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Commons Chamber
Pet Abduction Bill
2nd reading - Fri 19 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Oliver Heald (Con - North East Hertfordshire) , so pet theft is seen as a minor crime with low prosecution rates and relatively lenient sentences, - Speech Link
2: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) it as a specific offence. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) specific pet abduction offence. - Speech Link
2: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) historic opportunity to make spiking a separate, specific offence defined in law and to send a very clear - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) campaign for a specific offence of spiking. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Domestic burglary is down by 57%, violent crime by 52%, vehicle-related theft by 39%, and the number - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) offence of possessing a bladed article with the intent to use it in unlawful violence. - Speech Link
3: Paul Holmes (Con - Eastleigh) ; it is a working-class, ex-railway town that has specific issues with crime. - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) , poaching, wildlife crime, and the theft of pets, farm livestock and indeed horses. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 06 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Eddie Hughes (CON - Walsall North) Hundreds of animal lovers across the west midlands have suffered the dreadful crime of pet theft in recent - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) Stealing a pet is already a criminal offence, and we know the devastating impact that pet theft can have - Speech Link
3: Michael Tomlinson (CON - Mid Dorset and North Poole) It will transform how the CPS communicates with victims and ensure that those with specific needs have - Speech Link
4: Jack Brereton (CON - Stoke-on-Trent South) My constituents are rightly concerned that such serious offenders can receive a non-custodial sentence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) I worked very hard with many colleagues from all sides of the House to get the pet theft stuff through - Speech Link
2: Andrea Jenkyns (CON - Morley and Outwood) provisions in the Bill tackles the pet owner’s worst nightmare: pet theft. - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) puppy smuggling, puppy farming, pet theft and live animal exports. - Speech Link
4: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) puppy smuggling, puppy farming, pet theft and live animal exports. - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) puppy smuggling, puppy farming, pet theft and live animal exports. - Speech Link
6: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) theft to be a specific offence. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 16 May 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Mike Freer (CON - Finchley and Golders Green) Lady would like to write with the details of the case, I can find out if there are specific reasons why - Speech Link
2: Mike Freer (CON - Finchley and Golders Green) With regard to this specific Bill, given the announcement last week, I do not believe that there is any - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) prison sentences a third longer than they did in 2010. - Speech Link
4: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) Does his agree with the former Prime Minister John Major, who recently said that “many short sentences - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Preventing Crime and Delivering Justice - Wed 11 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) The Bill will for the first time make it an offence to be a covert foreign spy on our soil. - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) by the Office for National Statistics, violence was down 8%, knife crime was down 4%, theft was down - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) often pursuing pet obsessions and short-term headlines instead of dealing with the basics. - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) Custodial sentences for knife offenders have fallen to the lowest level for seven years. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hare Coursing Bill - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) new offence of going equipped for hare coursing, introduce a power for the police to seize dogs used - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) are introducing stronger deterrents for the awful crime that is pet theft. - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) sentences are not forthcoming. - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) The is the first time that custodial sentences will be available in relation to convictions under the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 2 - Wed 15 Dec 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) Thirdly, he said that was particularly significant in the case of short custodial sentences. - Speech Link
2: None Thirdly, we limited the discretionary scheme to cases involving custodial sentences greater than 30 days - Speech Link
3: None enable the court to make an assessment of the impact of a custodial sentence on the child.”(3) After - Speech Link
4: Lord Bradley (LAB - Life peer) Almost half of the sentences that result in a custodial or community order have no new pre-sentence report - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Indeed, the stress on the need for information is absolutely crucial.I want to make a very specific point - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None This amendment therefore creates a specific criminal offence of desecration of a corpse to address intentional - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) theft of a pet animal with a sentence of up to five years’ imprisonment. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (CON - Life peer) ensure that individual sentences are commensurate with the seriousness of the offence. - Speech Link
4: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) Insulate Britain protesters have ended up with custodial sentences under existing legislation.As my noble - Speech Link